PAC is comprised of over 20,000 paramedics from coast to coast to coast. The Association is a national organization of prehospital practitioners that exists to promote quality and professional patient care through working relationships among organizations with similar interests. Protection of the Public and development of the profession in the public interest is the foundation.

This mission will be accomplished by allowing the association to serve as a nexus for consensus building among all stakeholders. The purpose of PAC is to represent the practitioners on a national level. It accomplishes this goal through cooperative consensus building.